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THE  IMPROVEMENTS  AND  EXPENDITURES 
UPON  SAME  BY  LESSEE  COMPANY  FROM  JULY  1st,  '81,  TO  OCT.  31st,  '82, 


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Reports  of   Experts  Hogg  &  Manly, 


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Master  Machinist  Manly, 
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REPORT  OF  J.  W.  ANDREWS, 

Chief  Eng.  &  Superintendent, 

ON  CONDITION  OF  ATLANTIC  &  N.  C.  R.  R. 
Including  Reports  of  Officers  and  Experts.* 


Midland  N.  C.  Railway  Co., 

New-Berne,  Nov.  22,  1882. 
Wm.  J.  Best.  Esq.,  President  M.  N.  C.  Railway  Co. : 

Sir  : — Within  the  past  month  Gen.  W.  Gaston  Lewis, 
an  Engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  Atlantic  and  North 
Carolina  Railroad  Company,  has  walked  over  the  line  from 
Morehead  to  Goldsboro  and  made  a  report  as  an  Expert  on 
'"the  true  condition  of  the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R.  at  the  present 
time."  That  report  has  been  published  in  pamphlet  form 
for  gratuitous  distribution  and  printed  in  one  or  more  of 
the  newspapers. 

In  consequence  of  the  publication  of  this  report,  to  ob- 
tain which  the  most  secret  and  extraordinary  means  were 
resorted  to,  its  inaccuracies,  misstatements,  gross  exag- 
gerations, and  ignorant  if  not  willful  falsehoods,  I,  in 
justice  to  the  Stockholders  of  the  A.  &.  1ST.  C.  R.  R.,  the  pub- 
lic, the  Midland  Company,  myself,  and  associate  officers, 
beg  to  submit  a  detailed  report  of  the  actual  condition  of 
the  road,  the  improvements  and  expenditures  that  have 
been  put  upon  it  by  the  Midland  North  Carolina  Railway 
Company  since  the  date  of  the  lease,  July  1st,  1881. 

From  the  "Summary'*  of  Expert  Gen'l  W.  Gaston  Lewis, 
I  quote  here  as  follows: 

•'The  details  of  this  report,  covering  the  section  forming  the  First 
Division,  from  terminus  of  the  road  at  Morehead  City  to  New-Berne, 
show  that  it  is  in  no  safe  condition  to  run  trains  over.  I  think  a  speed 
of  more  than  ten  miles  an  hour  over  this  division  of  the  road  would 
endanger  life  and  property.  The  rails  on  this  division  are  generally 
good.  Trent  River  bridge  is  reported  in  bad  condition  and  details  given. 
The  details  show  generally  a  good  road  bed,  in  places  too  narrow,  and 
ditches  need  cleaning  out  in  the  cuts.  Between  New-Berne  and  More- 
head  the  right  of  way  has  not  been  kept  cleaned  out  as  it  should  be.  They 
also  show  that  forty-two  thousand  two  hundred  and  sixty  good  heart 
cross  ties  are  needed  in  the  road  as  soon  as  they  can  be  put  in,  and  that 
nearly  as  large  a  number  will  be  necessary  during  the  ensuing  twelve 
•months.  The  ties  on  sections  five  to  eight  inclusive  are  three  feet  from 
centre  to  centre.     They  should  be  two  feet. 

*0n  page  seven  "New  Fish  Cars  have  air-brakes"  was  a  clerical  error  in  the 
preparation  of  this  Report. 

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"There  are  about  twelve  thousand  sap  ties  in  the  road  between  Golds- 
boro  and  Morehead.  These  will  have  to  be  replaced  with  good  heart  ties 
in  the  course  of  two  years,  as  that  is  the  life-time  of  such  timber,  even 
under  favorable  circumstances.  The  motive  power  is  overtaxed  and 
run  down.  Some  of  the  most  important  bridges  are  in  bad  order,  and 
numerous  culverts  and  cattle  guards  are  in  bad  condition,  some  danger- 
ous. There  is  a  notable  deficiency  in  the  spikes  and  they  are  not 
driven  to  hold  the  flanges  of  the  rails,  as  they  should  be  held.  The  cul- 
verts are  mostly  of  brick,  and  the  brick  work  on  all,  except  a  few,  is  in 
first  rate  condition.     Most  of  the  rolling  stock  is  in  very  fair  condition. 

•'The  rails  are  generally  very  good.  On  portions  of  the  road  a  num- 
ber of  joints  are  laminated  badly,  and  some  of  the  rails  are  crushed, 
but  this  iron  with  proper  attention  and  putting  in  a  few  miles  of  new 
rails,  so  that  the  remainder  can  be  repaired,  will  do  service  for  many 
years,  provided  locomotives  of  not  too  heavy  weight  be  run  over  it. 
Your  road  cannot  be  operated  through  the  approaching  winter  unless 
the  ditches  in  the  cuts  be  cleaned  out  to  some  extent,  culverts,  cattle 
guards  and  bridges  repaired,  and  a  large  number  of  new  ties  put  in  the 
track  " 

Paragraph  3  of  the  lease  reads  : — 

"The  party  of  the  second  part  (M.  N.  C.  Railway  Co.)  further  cove- 
nants and  agrees  that  during  the  term  hereby  granted  it  will  at  its  own 
cost,  risk  and  expense  maintain  and  keep  the  aforesaid  railroad,  together 
with  all  the  property,  real  and  personal  thereunto  appertaining  or  be- 
longing, hereby  demised  by  the  party  of  the  first  part,  in  as  good  con- 
dition and  repair  as  at  the  date  hereof;  and  at  the  end  of  said  term  of 
thirty  years,  or  the  earlier  termination  of  this  lease  to  return  to  the  par- 
ty of  the  first  part  or  its  successor,  said  railroad  and  property,  all 
and  every  part  thereof  or  like  things,  in  as  good  condition  as  when  the 
same  was  delivered  to  the  party  of  the  second  part.'" 

Dr.  Thos.  D.  Hogg  is  the  Expert  of  the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R. 
Co.  under  the  Midland  lease,  as  he  is  the  Expert  of  the 
X.  C.  R.  R.  Co.  under  the  Richmond  and  Danville  lease. 
I  beg  to  submit  here  the  official  report  of  Dr.  Hogg  of 
date  of  August  25,  1882:  — 


LETTER  FROM    DR.  HOUti : 

Col.  John  D.  Whitford.  President.  &c.  :    . 

Dear  Sir : , 

I  herewith  enclose  the  report  of 
Mr.  Manly  and  myself  as  experts  for  the  present  year. 

We  have  agreed  that  the  lessee  is  maintaining  the  property  fully  up 
to  the  requirements  of  the  lease,  for,  in  fact,  he  could  not  use  to  ad- 
vantage a  progressive  property  like  a  railroad  by  permitting  it  to  remain 
in  the  same  condition  in  which  he  received  it,  and  so  maintain  it  for 
thirty  years. 

It  is  very  evident  that  there  is  an  error  in   the    last  inventory,  as 


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printed,  in  valuing  the  axles  on  hand  at  $2,475.28.  It  must  have  been 
the  value  of  material  in  machine  shops.  We  do  not  agree  as  to  some 
of  the  values  fixed  by  our  predecessors;  but.  inasmuch  as  our  valuation 
could  not  alter  the  lease,  we  did  not  think  it  necessary  to  refer  them  to 
an  umpire. 

Mr.  Manly  holds,  with  the  experts  of  1881,  that  the  iron  is  so  worn 
that,  in  view  of  a  heavier  rolling  stock  and  increased  traffic,  the  iron 

should  be  valued    as  scrap,  less  the  cost  of  taking  up  and  marketing  it 

that  is  to  say— ^27,  less  $6  to  cover  cost  of  selling  it,  which  leaves  $21 
per  ton.  From  this  I  dissent.  This  iron  is  of  the  same  quality  as  that  placed 
on  the  N.  C.  R.  R.  in  1855,  which  was  bought  at  a  time  when  the  facili- 
ties for  mixing  ores  were  not  perfected,  and  it  has  a  toughness  that  is 
equal  to  some  of  the  steel  rail  of  to-day.  The  iron  on  the  N.  C.  R.  R. 
of  the  same  quality,  has  been  subject  to  a  more  trying  soil,  greater 
curves,  stiff  er  grades  and  much  greater  traffic,  heavier  trains  and  higher 
speed,  and  to-day  there  is  on  that  road  sixty  (60)  miles  of  the  iron  put 
down  in  1855,  two  years  earlier  than  that  on  your  road.  Some  lots  of 
iron  put  down  on  the  former  road  since  the  war  are  worn  out  and  "-one. 
I  am  of  opinion  that  by  the  addition  of  four  (4)  per  cent,  of  steel  rails 
and  fish  plate  annually,  and  with  competent  section  masters,  this  iron 
will  stand  any  traffic  that  will  be  required  for  years  to  come. 

This  statement  of  facts  is  offered  to  the  stockholders  of  your  road  in 
order  that  they  may  know  the  value  of  their  property,  in  case  they 
should  make  another  lease.  The  party  wishing  to  lease  may  point  out 
that  your  own  expert  has  said  that  this  iron  is  only  scrap,  and,  there- 
fore, the  track  would  require  relaying  very  early.  From  this  I  entirely 
dissent. 

The  road  bed  and  superstructure  is  iu  better  condition  than  is 
generally  supposed. 

The  warehouse  at  Morehead  cost  $46,483.  It  is  evidently  a  mistake  to 
value  it  at  $3,000;  but  how  w-e  are  to  correct  it  now,  so  as  to  affect  the 
lease,  I  do  not  know,  the  value  having  been  fixed  by  the  experts  at  the 
time  the  property  was  turned  over. 

The  warehouse  and  dock,  Neuse  River,  brick,  and  wharf  at  Newbern 
cost  $18,574,  and  was  valued  at  $2,500.  In  our  report  we  have  agreed 
that  the  repairs  on  this  property  are  worth  $2,700. 

I  specify  these  items  to  impress  the  fact  that  I  do  not  wish  to  be 
understood  as  assenting  to  the  values  fixed  by  the  former  experts. 

THOS.  D.  HOGG, 

Expert  for  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R. 
August  25th,  1882. 


"The  undersigned,  experts,  respectively,  on  the  part  of  the  Atlantic  & 
North  Carolina  Rail  Road  Company  and  the  Midland  North  Carolina 
Railway  Company,  respectfully  report : 

"That  on  the  27th  day  of  July,  and  on  the  24th  day  of  August,  A.  D» 
1882,  they  traveled  over  the  entire  length  of  the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R.,  and 
inspected  the  condition  of  the  track,  rolling-stock,  &c. 


"They  find  the  road-bed  in  good  order,  except  that  it  needs  ditching 
and  weeding,  and  it  is  their  opinion  that  the  sections  are  too  long  and 
that  the  number  of  section  hands  should  be  increased. 

"The  cross-ties  West  of  Newbern  are  sufficient  in  number,  but  should 
be  more  carefully  selected  as  to  quality;  and  East  of  Newbern  there  is 
not  a  sufficient  number  of  them. 

"The  bridges  are  all  in  good  order. 

"Scott's  Creek  bridge  has  been  retinned  and  painted:  Batchelor's  Creek 
bridge  has  been  rebuilt;  Core  Creek  bridge  has  new  sills.  Jack  Smith's 
Creek  bridge  has  also  been  retinned  and  painted;  the  draw  in  Trent 
river  bridge  has  been  repaired,  and  so  has  been  the  draw  in  Neuse  river 
bridge;  and  they  recommend  that  heavy  rails  be  placed  on  Trent  river 
bridge  to  replace  those  now  in  use,  which  are  too  light;  Stoney  Creek 
bridge  has  been  retinned,  repaired  and  repainted. 

"New  piling  is  being  placed  in  the  approach  to  the  warehouse  at 
Morehead. 

"A  new  depot  building  has  been  erected  at  Wildwood  station, 
costing  one  hundred  and  fifty  (150)  dollars. 

"At  New-Berne  a  new  wharf  40x150  feet  has  been  built  at  a  cost  of 
two  thousand  seven  hundred  dollars  ($2,700.00);  the  old  wharf  has  been 
entirely  rebuilt  at  a  cost  of  five  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($550.00);  a 
new  platform  to  the  river  warehouse  cost  one  hundred  dollars 
($100.00). 

"New  dwelling  house  for  agent  cost  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars 
($250.00);  new  car  shed  50x125  feet  cost  twelve  hundred  dollars  (1200.00); 
to  present  time;  repairing  foundry  roof,  machine  shops  and  round 
house  cost  five  hundred  dollars  ($500.00);  new  paint  shop  25x75  feet 
cost  five  hundred  dollars  ($500.00);  new  station  cost  up  to  this  time 
two  thousand  five  hundred  dollars  ($2,500.00):  and  new  offices  for  rail- 
road purposes  cost  five  hundred  dollars  ($500.00).  The  old  depot  at  this 
place,  which  was  valued  in  your  last  inventory  at  two  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars  ($2,500.00),  has  been  torn  down  and  removed. 

"New  station  at  Dover  cost  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  $(150.00). 
A  new  bridge  tender's  house  has  been  erected  at  Neuse  river  bridge  at 
a  cost  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($350.00). 

"The  warehouse  and  platform  at  La  Grange  have  been  repaired. 

"At  Goldsboro'  the  warehouse  has  been  re-tinned  and  the  platform 
renewed;  a  new  cotton  platform  30x150  feet  has  been  erected  at  this 
place  at  a  cost  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($350.00). 

"The  timbers    have  been  renewed  in  the  turn  table  at  Morehead. 

"Water-tanks  have  been  repaired  and  housed  in  at  Newport,  Core 
Creek,  Kinston  and  La  Grange;  and  at  Goldsboro  a  new  tank  and 
well,  the  latter  bricked  up,  has  been  built  and  housed  in  at  a  cost  of 
nine  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  (S950.00). 

"The  iron  rails  are  in  good  condition  and  better  than  they  expected  to 
find  them.  Mile  number  thirty-eight  (38)  has  been  laid  with  new  steel 
rail  and  fish  plate;  and  they  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  iron  complies 
with  the  terms  of  the  lease  to-day:  but    they  recommend  that    four 


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Hundred  (400)  tons  of  new  rails  be  placed  in  the  road  (luring  the 
coming  year,  and  the  rails  taken  up  will  supply  repairing  rails  for  the 
remainder  of  the  track. 

"They  accept  the  las>t  inventory  of  the  furniture  and  tools  in  the 
depots.  Road  Master's  and  Master  Machinist's  departments  as  their  re- 
port of  this  year. 

"In  the  Master  Machinist's  department  there  is  material  on  hand 
valued  at  $5,201.45  and  an  engine  No.  1,  Bragg,  on  which  $2,500  has 
been  expended  in  rebuilding.  This  engine  was  denominated  "scrap*" 
in  the  last  inventory. 

"There  is  $500  worth  of  new  iron  now  on  hand  to  build  a  new  boiler 
and  tank  for  engine  No.  2. — Chas.  F.  Fisher. 


THE  ROLLING  STOCK— Engines: 

Lewis  Coleman,  No.  9,  built  1855,  rebuilt  1881,  28  tons. 

U.  S.  Grant,  No.  7,  built  1860,  24  tons. 

John  Stanly  (airbrake),  No.  4,  built  1857.  rebuilt  1879.  20  tons. 

Wm   Gaston  (air  brake).  No.  6.  built  1857,  rebuilt  1878,  22  tons. 

W.  J.  Best,  No.  8,  built  1862,  rebuilt  1875.  28  tons. 

J.  D.  Whitford,  No.  3,  built  1857,  rebuilt  1878,  20  tons. 

The  Lewis  Coleman  has  been  increased  in  value  $2,000  over  last 
estimate.  The  other  locomotives  remain  of  the  same  value  as  then 
given,  except  numbers  4  and  5,  the  increased  value  of  which,  by  reason 
of  the  addition  of  the  air  brake,  they  estimate  at  S400  each.  Mileage: — 
Total,  for   eleven  months  ending  May  31st.  1882.  143,852  miles. 

Flat  Cars: 
No.  No 

48  18 

49  52 

50  53 
cars,   numbers  not  known, 

broken  up  since  last  inventory.     Value  same  as  last  year;  but  a  large 
number  have  been  repaired  and  improved  by  new  wheels  and  axles. 

Shanty  Cars: 

Numbers  1  and  2  same  value  as  last  year.  Box  car.  No.  33,  has  been 
converted  into  a  shanty  car. 

Box  Cars: 

No.                   No.  No.                   No.                   No.  No. 

20  23  26                      29                       32  36 

21  24  27                     30                       34  37 

22  25  28                     31                      35  38 
Same  value  as  last  year.  No.  39  not  found;  think  it  was  an  error  in 

last  inventory.     Nos.    70,    71,  72,    73,   74  and   75  have  had  new  wheels 
placed  under  them. 

New  Box  Cars: 

Numbers  76,  77,  78,  79,  80,  81,  82  and  83  are  valued  at  $450  each,  and 
have  been  placed  on  the  road  since  the  last  inventory;  also,  Nos.  84  and 
85,  new  fish  cars,  with  galvanized  iron  floors,  valued  at  $500  each.*  New 


No. 

No. 

40 

45 

42 

46 

44 

47 

Three 

flat    c 

No.               No. 

No. 

54                 57 

64 

55                  59 

65 

56                  60 

66 

have   been   condemned 

and 

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Gondola  cars,  Nos.  203  and  204,  are  valued  at  $400  each.     New  flat  cars, 
Nos.  200,  201   and  202,    are  valued  at  $350  each.     All  of  said  new  cars 
are  marked  "A.  &  N.  C.  Division." 

Baggage  Cars: 

No.  1,        repaired  and  repainted. 
No.  3,  being  "  "  " 

Same  value  as  last  inventory,    except  additional  $150  to  each   for  air 
brakes;  and  also  $150  to  No.  3  for  Janney  platform  and  buffer. 

Passenger  Cars— Second  class: 

No.  9,  rebuilt,  airbrakes,  $1,200 increased  value. 

No.  5,  same  value  as  last  year. 

No.  7,      "        "       "     "      *' 

No.  4,      "        "       "     "       " 

No.  8,  repaired,  air  brakes,  $150,  increased  value. 

No.  2,  same  value  as  last  year. 

Passenger  Cars — First  class: 

No   10,  new,  air  brake,  Janney  platform  and  buffer,  valued  at  $3,500. 
No.  11,  new,  airbrake,  Janney  platform  and  buffer,  valued  at  $3,500. 
No.  12,  "Enterprise,"  new,    officers'  car,  have  not  agreed  as  to  value; 
have  referred  same  to  Capt.  John  F.  Devine,  as  umpire:  and  we  await 
his  valuation  thereon. 

THOS  D.  HOGG, 

Expert  for.  A .  &  N.  C   R.  R. 
BASIL  MANLY, 

Expert  for  M.  N.  C.  Railway  Co. 
Since  signing    the  above    we    have    agreed  to  accept  Capt.  John  F. 
Devine's  valuation  of  the  Enterprise,  that  is  $4,600. 

THOS.  D.  HOGG. 

Expert  for  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R. 
BASIL  MANLY, 

Expert  for  M.  N.  C.  Railway  Co. 


Summary  of  Messrs.  Hogg  and  Manly's  Report. 

Road-bed  in  good  order. 

Sufficient  cross-ties  West  of  New  Berne;  East  insufficient,  and  for  per- 
manency and  economy  better  quality  recomended. 
Bridges  all  in  good  order. 
Scott's  Creek  Bridge  re-tinned  and  painted. 
Batchelor's  Creek  Bridge  re-built. 
Core  Creek  Bridge  new  sills. 
Trent  River  Draw  repaired. 
Neuse  River  Draw  repaired. 
Heavier  rails  wanted  on  Trent  Bridge. 
Stony  Creek  Bridge  re-tinned,  repaired  and  painted. 


New  piling  in  approaches  to  Morehead  Warehouse. 

New  Depot  Building  at  Wildwoood $        150.00 

50x150  Wharf  at  New  Berne 2.700.00 

Old  Wharf  rebuilt 550.00 

New  Platform  to  New  Berne  Warehouse 100.00 

New  house  for  '■  Agent 250. o0 

New  Car  Shop  (to  date  of  report) 1.200.00 

New  Paint  Shop 500.00 

Repairs  to  Foundry  roof,  Shops  and  Round  house 500.00 

New  Station  Building  vto  date  of  report; 2,500.00 

New  Supt's  Office 500.00 

New  Station  at  Dover 150.00 

Bridge  Tender's  house  at  Neuse  Bridge 350.00 

Warehouse  and  Platform  at  LaGrange  repaired 

Goldsboro'  Warehouse  and  Platform  repaired 

New  30x150  Platform  at  Goldsboro' 350.00 

Timbers  renewed  in  Morehead  Turn-table 

Newport,  Core  Creek,   Kinston  and  LaGrange  water  tanks 

repaired  and  housed  in. 

New  Tank  and  Well  at  Goldsboro" 950.00 

Iron  rails  on  line  in  good  condition. 
Mile  No.  38,  new  steel  rails. 
Iron  complies  with  terms  of  lease. 
Tools  of  same  value  as  last  year. 

New  material  on  hand  in  shop 5,201.45 

Expended  on  Scrap  Engine  ••Bragg"'  vto  date  of  report) 2,500,00 

New  iron  for  boiler  to  "Fisher"' 500.00 

Engines  all  remain  of  same   value  except  Lewis  Coleman, 

increased  $2000  and  Nos.  4  and  6  ©400  each 2,800.00 

Old  Flat  cars  kept  to  same  value 

Old  Box  cars  kept  up  to  same  value. 

Eight  new  Box  cars  $3,600;  Two  new  Fish  cars  $1,000;  Two 

new  Gondola  cars  $800;  Three  new  Flat  cars  $1,050  : 

Total  for  new  freight  cars  by  M.  N.  C.  Railway 6,450.00 

Two  Baggage  cars  improved  $150  each 300.00 

Six  Second-class  improved 1,350.00 

Two  new  first-class  cars 7,000.00 

New  official  car  [valued  by  Capt.  Devine] 4,600.00 

*  New  Fish  cars  have  air  brakes 300.00 


Total:  $41,751.45 


'  REMARKS. 
Thus  we  have,  by  report  of  Experts  Hogg  and  Manly 
$41,751.45,  expended  by  the  Midland  Company  in  new 
work,  material  and  repairs  at  stations,  on  wharves,  shops, 
&c,  from  Morehead  to  Goldsboro;  increased  value  of  En- 
gines and  cars  by  improvements,  additions  and  repairs, 


and  new  rolling  stock  built  and  put  upon  the  road  by  this 
Company,  exclusive  of  mile  38  of  new  steel  ($5,280).  The 
repairs  on  Scott's  creek  bridge,  rebuilding  Batchelor's  creek 
bridge,  repairing  Core  creek  bridge,  Trent  and  Neuse  river 
Draws,  Stony  Creek,  bridge  new  piling  in  approach  to  More- 
head  warehouse,  repairs  to  warehouses  and  platforms  at  La- 
Grange  and  Goldsboro,  new  Warehouse  and  Platform  at 
Falling  Creek  (which  they  omitted  altogether)  new  tim- 
bers in  Morehead  Turn-table,  housing  in  and  repairing 
Water-tanks  at  Newport,  Kinston  and  LaGrange,  upon 
all  of  which  they  omitted  to  place  a  value  in  their  exami- 
nation and  report,  made  and  completed  Aug.  25,  1882. 


Supplemental  Report  of  Dr.  Thos.  D.  Hogg,  Expert. 

Goldsboro,  N.  C,  November  9th,  1882. 
Col.  Jxo.  D.  Whitford,  President,  &c. : 

Dear  Si)- : — I  submit  the  following 
table  in  answer  to  yours  and  Gov.  Jarvis'  request  that  I  would  revise 
my  report  as  to  the  condition  of  the  cross-ties.  I  stepped  from  a  hand 
car,  at  different  points  on  the  road,  indicated  by  myself,  and  heretofore 
unknown  to  me.  I  then  counted  and  carefully  examined  five  hundred 
cross-ties  just  ahead  of  my  car,  each  time  I  stopped,  divided  as  follows: 
New.  Old. 

MILE.  SAP.  HEART.  ROTTEX.  SOUND.  TOTAL. 

47  5  10  31  454  500 

50  35  4  57  404  500 

52  55  4  42  399  500 

56  103  12  34  351  500 

62  0  81  13  406  500 

64  69  26  13  392  500 

69  45  13  17  425  500 

70  31  0  47  422  500 
73  45  39  19  397  500 
75  25  40  17  418  500 
79  8  59  30  403  500 
82  66  40  14  380  500 
85  48  55  19  378  500 
88  26  57  21  396  500 
92  58  23  8  411  500 
94  5  53  13  429  500 

624  516  398  6,463  8,000 

I  required  the  section  master  to  point  out  to  me  the  cross-ties  which 
he  would  take  out  of  the  road  this  year  if  he  had  a  plenty  of  cross-ties 
on  hand ;  these  I  called  rotten  ties.  He  also  classed  the  new  ties  sap  or 
heart,  and  I  watched  him  carefully  to  see  if  I  agreed  with  him. 

There  are  about  2,100  cross-ties  to  the  mile  in  this  road,  and  in  the 
ninety-five  miles   199,500;  so  if  the  miles   tabulated  above  are  a  fair 


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average  of  the  road,  as  I  take  them  to  be,  there  would  be  in  the  whole 
road  15,500  sap  ties,  12,900  heart  ties,  9,950  rotten  ties,  161,150  sound  ties. 
The  ties  denominated  sap  and  heart  are  new,  and  have  been  placed  in 
the  road  since  the  least'.  So  28,400  rotten  ties  have  been  taken  out  by 
the  lessees,  and  there  remains  in  the  road  9,950  rotten  ties,  as  above 
stated.  Hence,  I  conclude  that  the  cross-ties  are  in  better  condition 
than  they  were  when  the  road  was  leased. 

The  estimate  above  given  applies  to  the  road  west  of  Newbern.  I  did 
not  have  time  to  go  east  of  that  place  so  as  to  report  to  this  meeting.  But 
in  my  former  report.  I  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  cross-ties 
east  of  Newbern  were  not  sufficient  in  number.  Therefore,  the  ratio 
above  given  may  be  too  large  for  that  part  of  the  road. 

I  began  my  examination  at  mile  47  because  I  could  not  get  a  hand 
car  until  I  reached  that  point  on  a  material  train  from  Newbern. 

I  find  on  this  trip   that  the  new  ties   which   are   now   coming   in   are 

much  better  than  those  formerly  used. 

Yours  Very  Truly, 

THOS.  D.  HOGG, 

Expert  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R. 


ROAD  MASTER'S  REPORT. 


New-Berne,.  June  27,  1882. 

J.  W.  ANDREWS,  Esq., 

Chief  Engineer  and  Sup"t  M.  N.  C.  Railway: 

Sir  :— 

As  directed  I  herewith  hand  you  a  comparative  statement  of  the 
work  done  in  the  Road  Department  of  the  A.  &  N.  C.  Division  from 
July  1st  to  May  31st: — 

Months                      Road  Department.                      1881.  1882. 

Julvl880 "   "   $1,340.07  Sl.514.20 


August 

Sept. 

Oct 


1,287.52  1,804.45 

1,774.58  2,423.08 

1,315.01   5,125.64 


|£     '        «                        «  "  1,306.29  2,962.05 

tZ'       « •<  » 1,416.71  1,696.93 

jan"18Sl  .'  "  .'.'....  "  1,221.75  1,761.84 

March « ::::::::::  - :::::: «« 1.373.90 1,537.47 


April 


1.638.51   4,211.75 


MaT       .. ••   -   3,249.95  1,963.82 

17,246.66  26,424.76 

Steel  rails  not  included  in  the  above,  5,280.00 

Extraordinary  and  permanent  improvements, 
being  now  constructed  at  New- Berne,  car 
shed    $350;     passenger    depot    $750;     car 

shop  $650,  ^Q-00 

$17,246.66  $33,454.7B 


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The  condition  of  the  road,  commencing  at  Goldsboro,  you  will  find 
as  follows: — 

Goldsboro;  the  platform  at  the  brick  warehouse  new  throughout,  and 
also  new  cotton  platform  and  new  water  station  complete. 

Stony  Creek  bridge;  good  order,  new  trestle,  roof  painted  with  metal ic 
paint 

La  Grange;  warehouse  thoroughly  repaired  and  paiuted. 

Falling  Creek;  new  warehouse  and  platform. 

Kinston;  warehouse  in  good  order. 

Neuse  Eiver  bridge;  thoroughly  overhauled;  new  centre  put  in  draw 
and  new  house  built  for  the  bridge  watchman. 

Southwest  bridge;  thoroughly  overhauled. 

Dover;  new  warehouse  and  platform. 

Core  Creek;  trestle  thoroughly  overhauled. 

Jack  Smith's  Creek  bridge;  thoroughly  overhauled  and  in  good  order. 

New-Berne;  brick  warehouse  in  good  order:  new  car  shed;  new  pas- 
senger depot;  new  President's,  Superintendent's  and  Directors'  offices, 
all  nearly  completed. 

Trent  River  bridge;  in  safe  condition;  new  piling  driven  and  capped 
to  make  approach  to  draw  safe  for  vessels. 

Scott's  Creek  bridge;  roof  painted,  and  in  good  order. 

Havelock  bridge;  overhauled  and  in  good  order,  and  material  on 
hand  for  new  warehouse  and  platform. 

Newport  bridge;  in  good  order. 

Wildwood;  new  warehouse  and  platform. 

Morehead  City;  platform  now  being  repaired,  and  new  piling  being 
driven. 

List  of  tools  and  material  on  hand  on  May  31,  1881,  and  May  31.  1882. 
As  above,  1881.  1882. 

3,942.66  4,891.60. 

Respectfully  Submitted, 

HUGH  MURDOCH,  Road  Master. 


Supplement  to  Road  Master's  Report. 

To  this  even  date,  Mr.  Murdoch  returns  the   following  as  additional 
work  since  the  date  of  his  annual  report  June  27:— 

Morehead  pier;  40  piles  driven  and  braces  and  caps  put  in $275 

Havelock;  a  20x30  warehouse  and  platform, 250 

A  three  quarter  mile  branch  track  to  saw  mill,  costing,  in  addition 

to  Ashley's  gratuitous  labor  and  material,  300 

Trent  River  Bridge;  repaired  draw  and  put  in  three  caps  and 

four  stringers, 

New-Berne  Station;  station  building  completed  and  furnished, 

cost, 2;750 

President's  and  Superintendent's  offices, 750 

New  fencing  about  yard, 75 


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Changing  tracks  in  yard  and  laying  new  one 500 

New  water  tank  completed 350 

Repairing  old  tank, 25 

New  tank  at  shops,  new  floor  in  round  house  and  repairing  Master 

Machinist's  office, 225 

Finishing  work  on  car  shed, 300 

New  stringers  in  Red  Hill  culvert 

New  stringers  in  culvert  near  residence  Capt.  Oaksmith, 

New  stringers  in  Core  Creek  bridge, 

Added  9,000  square  feet  of  platform  to  Goldsboro  warehouse, 450 

New  track  (400  feet)  into  rice  mill, 200 

New  steel  crossing  W.  &  W.  R.  R 250 

New   stringers  in  3  cattle  guards   on   section  No.  1,  beginning   at 

Morehead 

The  section  hands  all  along  the  line  are  at  work  during  dry  weather 
levelling,  up  lining  and  surfacing  track,  shrubbing  right  of  way,  &c. 


3IASTER  MACHINIST'S  REPORT. 


Xew-Berne,  May  31,  1882. 

J.  W.  ANDREWS,  Esq., 

Chief  Engineer  and  Sup*t.  M.  N.  C.  Railway: 
Sir: — 

Herewith  please  find  statement  of  condition  and  cost  of  repairs  on 
machinery  and  rolling  stock  in  this  department  for  the  eleven  months 
ending  with  May  31,  1882, 

Engine  No.  2,  Chas.  F.  Fisher,  has  done  the  shifting  at  New-Berne 
since  July,  1881,  and  we  have  purchased  from  the  Abbott  Iron  Company 
material  for  new  boiler  and  tank  at  a  cost  of  about  S500. 

Engine  No.  3,  John  D.  Whitford,  running  passenger  train ;  has  had 
new  set  of  steel  tubes  (#300);  new  stack  ($70)  and  set  of  "Westinghouse 
air  brakes  (^400). 

Engine  No.  4,  John  Stanly,  running  passenger  train  and  has  had 
Westinghouse  air  brakes  attached  at  a  cost  of  $ 400,  besides  other  neces- 
saiw  repairs. 

Engine  No.  6,  Win.  Gaston,  is  in  good  running  order  and  hauling 
construction  train  on  Smithfield  Branch. 

Engine  No.  7  is  in  running  order,  hauling  construction  train  and 
doing  good  service. 

Engine  No  8,  Wm.  J.  Best,  has  lately  been  thoroughly  overhauled 
and  is  now  in  first  class  condition. 

Engine  No.  9.  Lewis  Coleman,  has  been  rebuilt  with  partial  new  boiler, 
set  of  steel  tubes,  &c  ,  completed  in  January,  1882,  at  a  cost  of  §2,700.81, 
now  doing  the  work  of  a  first  class  engine. 

Engine  No.  1,  Gov.  Bragg,  was  received  from  the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R.  as 
••scrap"  and  valued  at  SI, 500.  Have  under  construction  for  her  a  new 
boiler  and  tank,  have    purchased  new  steel  axles  and    tires,  iron  for 


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stack,  truck  wheels,  &c,  and  repaired  her  machinery.     Have  expended 
upon  her  to  date  SI, 961. 32. 

Passenger,  Baggage  and  Mail  Cars: 

We  have  in  good  running  order  three  first  class  cars,  six  second  class 
and  two  baggage  aud  mail  cars.  To  one  of  the  second  class  cars,  over- 
hauled and  rebuilt  in  July  and  August  last,  we  gave  a  complete  set  of 
new  trucks  and  seats  at  a  cost  of  $1,000.  Have  also  equipped  with 
Westinghouse  air  brakes,  one  first  class,  two  second  class  and  two  bag- 
gage and  mail  cars  at  a  cost  of  about  $150  each.  Total  cost  for  repairs, 
oils,  brasses,  &c,  for  passenger  cars  §3,585.02.  We  purchased  two  first 
class  cars  from  the  Jackson  &  Sharpe  Company  last  August  for  $4,200 
each.  We  have  on  hand  material  for  necessary  repairs  to  first  class 
car  No.  4  (old)  and  to  be  rebuilt. 

Box,  Flat,  Gondola  and  Shanty  Cars: 

We  have  36  box,  28  platform,  2  Gondola  and  2  shanty  cars.  Ten  of 
the  box  cars  are  new,  built  since  October,  1881,  and  are  of  28,000  lbs. 
capacity.  Two  of  them  were  finished  specially  for  the  Express  Com- 
pany to  haul  fish,  at  an  additional  cost  of  $60  each.  Two  of  the  Gon- 
dola and  two  of  the  platform  cars  have  been  built  since  January,  1882. 
We  have  on  hand  and  ready  framed  material  enoxigh,  (lacking  some 
small  stuff)  for  7  box  cars  of  28,000  lbs  capacity.  The  trucks  will  be 
iron  of  the  Thielsen  pattern.  The  patterns,  forms,  and  all  the  neces- 
sary material  such  as  springs,  oak  for  bolsters  and  brake  beams,  iron  for 
hangers,  arch  and  tie  bars,  axles  and  wheels,  are  all  on  hand,  and  the  cars 
will  be  pushed  to  completion.  We  have  bills  with  Messrs.  McLean  and 
Congdon  for  30  box  and  20  platform  cars,  and  some  of  the  stuff  has  been 
delivered. 

The  total  cost  for  the  10  box,  2  platform  and  2  Gondola  cars  and  labor 
framing  the  six  other  Gondolas  is  $5,536.34.  The  total  cost  of  new 
wheels,  axles,  journals,  brasses,  general  repairs,  &c..^on  old  freight  cars 
has  been  $2,717  66. 

Shops: 

The  shops,  machinery,  tools,  patterns,  &c,  are  hi  as  good  condition 
as  they  have  been  for  several  years  past.  We  have  made  some  slight  ad- 
ditions to  the  machinery  ;  one  Emory  grinding  machine  $110;  one  mor- 
tising machine  $22.  We  have  made  several  new  and  expensive  patterns 
within  the  past  year  costing  8350.45,  and  have  erected  a  tower  with 
windlass  and  drop  hammer  for  breaking  old  car  wheels  and  other  heavy 
castings  for  use  in  the  foundry,  costing  $125. 

The  roof  of  the  machine  shop  and  round  house  which  had  been  badly 
leaking  for  several  years,  doing  much  damage  to  the  timbers  support- 
ing the  roof,  so  much  so  that  it  was  dangerous,  has  been  recently 
thoroughly  repaired,  and  is  now  without  a  leak  and  safe  for  several 
years. 

The  new  car  shop  now  building,  50x125,  will  have  floor  room  for 
erecting  six  cars  at  a  time,  and  with  the  proper  machinery  we  can  turn 
out  12  to  15  cars  per  month. 

I  am  pleased  to  say  that  the  shops,  machinery,  rolling  stock,  i.  e.,  cars, 


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engines,  &c.  are    in  as  good    condition  as  they    have  been    for  several 
pears. 

Officers'  Car. 
This  car  will  be  finished  and  ready  for  use  about  the    15th  June,  and 
will  cost  when  completed  about  $4,600.     It  is  a  superior  car  of  its  class, 
and  is  equipped  with  the  Janney  platform  and  buffer  ami  Westinghouse 

air  brake. 

Respectfully  Submitted, 

BASIL  MANLY,  Master  Machinist. 


Supplementary  Report  of  Master  Machinist. 

New-Berxe.  N.  C,  Nov.  10,  1882. 
J.  W.  ANDREWS,  Esq., 

Chief  Exuixeer  axd  Sup't.  M.  N.  C.  Railway: 
Sir  .•— 

Anticipating  the  necessity  for  more  motive  power  to  meet  the 
increasing  demands  of  our  transportation  department,  two  new  and  pow- 
erful locomotives  were  ordered  of  the  Rhode  Island  Locomotive  Works 
last  summer,  which  undertook  to  deliver  them  at  Goldsboro  on  the  15th 
of  October  last.  During  the  early  part  of  that  month  I  inspected  the 
engines  at  Providence  as  they  were  turned  out  of  the  shops  completed. 
We  have  telegrams  that  they  were  shipped  on  the  8th  inst.,  after  many 
delays  b}-  the  Pennsylvania  Road,  and  the  engines  should  reach  Golds- 
boro early  next  week.  With  these  engines  to  do  the  regular  freight 
business,  our  motive  power,  with  the  improvement  and  additions  we 
are  making  in  the  shops,  will  he  adequate  for  all  purposes. 

As  a  comparative  statement  of  the  general  condition  of  rolling  stock, 
engines,  cars,  shops,  tools,  and  machinery,  and  improvement  to  same  for 
the  sixteen  months  ending  October  31,  1883,  I  beg  to  submit  the  fol- 
lowing:— 

Passenger  Cars. 

Total  cost  for  repairs  &c  ,  $4,843.57.  Of  this  amount  $1,500  is  for  re- 
building second-class  car  No.  9,  and  attaching  air-brakes,  Janney  plat- 
forms and  couplers;  and  $830  is  for  equipping  one  other  2nd  class  car. 
two  baggage  and  mail  cars  with  same,  and  re-painting.  The  passenger, 
baggage  and  mail  cars  are  in  good  running  order,  except  first-clas  No. 
4,  (old)  in  repair  shop  requiring  $1,200  to  put  it  in  first-class  condition. 
The  two  first-class  cars  purchased  in  August  1881  have  been  in  constant 
use  ever  since,  are  now  in  first-class  order  and  running  every  day. 

Old  Freight  Box  Cars. 

All  of  these  cars  are  in  good  running  order  and  are  in  constant  use, 
except  No.  38,  now  in  repair  shop.  We  have  put  under  these  cars  in  the 
last  sixteen  months  about  60  new  wheels  and  18  new  axles,  which  cost 
$1,010. 

Flat  Cars. 

We  have  33  Flat  cars  in  running  order.  Five  been  broken  up — con- 
demned as  worthless— since  June  1881.     These  cars  were  valued  in  the 


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inventory  of  Messrs.  Yates  and  Harding  at  5150  each.     The  old  wheels, 
axles  and  Iron  on  one  of  these  cars  are  worth  to  this  Company  $60.00 

New    Freight  Cars. 

We  have  built  since  July  1881  10  Box  cars  of  12  tons  capacity;  5  Flat 
or  Coal  cars  of  10  Tons  capacity;  4  Coal  cars  of  15  tons  capacity,  all 
eight  wheel  cars.  The  4  coal  cars  of  15  tons  capacity  are  equipped  with 
the  iron  channel-bar  truck  of  the  Thielsen  pattern.  We  are  now  pre- 
pared with  the  patterns  and  everything  for  building  cars  of  twenty  tons 
capacity,  cheaper  than  they  can  be  purchashed  at  any  of  the  regular 
Car  building  establishments.  We  have  lumber  on  hand  and  framed 
ready  for  the  iron  work  for  seven  more  box  cars  of  20  tons  capacity. 
Total  cost  of    new  freight  cars  to  date  $7,965.26. 

Engines. 

The  Engines  out  of  service  are  the  Charles  Fisher  and  Dr.  Hawks. 
We  have  iron  on  hand  and  paid  for,  for  building  new  boiler  and  tank 
for  the  Fisher.  The  machinery  is  in  good. order,  and  the  Engine  will  be 
put  in  first-class  condition  for  $8,500. 

Engines  "3"  and  "7"  are  the  material  and  switch  Engines  respectively. 

Engine  No.  4  is  in  good  running  order  and  has  lately  been  equipped 
with  Westinghouse  air-brakes  for  Engine  and  tender  at  a  cost  of  $400. 

Engine  No.  6,  Wm.  Oaston,  is  now  in  shop  having  new  barrel  to  boiler 
put  in,  and  will  be  ready  for  service  in  about  two  weeks.  Has  been 
equipped  with  air-brake  attachments  to  Engine  and  tender  at  a  cost  of 
$400. 

Engine  No.  9,  rebuilt  in  December  and  January  1881-'82,  new  boiler 
&c,  at  a  cost  of  $2,700  is  in  good  running  order. 

Engine  No.  8,  Wm.  J.  Best,  which  was  overhauled  last  Spring  and 
put  in  thorough  order  at  a  cost  of  about  $800,  and  has  since  been  haul- 
ing freights,  met  with  an  accident  on  the  morning  of  Nov.  7th  at  Golds- 
boro,  caused  by  broken  axle  under  engine,  which  threw  her  from  the 
track  and  overturned  her.  Damage  to  the  machinery  about  $300  only, 
but  as  we  have  her  in  the  shops  we  shall  overhaul  her  at  an  additional 
cost  of  $500,  and  put  her  on  the  road  in  much  better  condition  than  be- 
fore the  accident. 

Engine  No.  12,  Gov.  Bragg,  received  from  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R,  as 
'scrap'  valued  at  $1,500  has  been  carefully  rebuilt  with  new  boiler  of  f  iron 
in  shell  and  wagon-top;  i  inch  in  tube-sheet;  steel  tubes  from  National 
Tube  Works  of  Boston ;  new  tank  of  i  inch  iron,  and  iron  trucks.  This 
is  a  complete  new  Engine  except  the  frame,  cylinders  and  wheel  centres, 
and  built  with  all  the  modern  improvements,  ah--brakes,  injectors,  &c. 
Put  on  the  road  Nov.  6,  and  cost  to  rebuild  her  $6,000. 

Shops. 

The  shops,  machinery,  tools,  &c,  are  all  in  good  running  order  and 
show  many  improvements  and  additions  in  detail.  None  of  the  Shop 
buidings  or  Round  House  have  leaked  since  this  Company  put  them  in 
order  and  overhauled  them  last  year.  BASIL  MANLY, 

Master  Machinist. 


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Statement  from  General  Book  Keeper. 


New  Berne,  N.  C  Nov.  20,  1882. 
J.  W.  Andrews, 

C'hf  Fng.  &  Sl'pt.  M.  N.  C.  Railway. 
Sir  : 

The  following  is  a  comparative  statement  of  expenditures  of  the  last 
sixteen  months  operations  of  the  old  management  of  the  A.  N.  C.  R.  R. 
and  the  first  sixteen  months  of  the  Midland  management  under  the 
lease : 

A.  &.  N.  C.  R.  R.         M.  N.  C.  R'y. 

Motive  power $  26,062.94  §  30,461.05 

Maintenance    Cars 8.428.90  10.155.83 

Maintenance  Roadway 28,323.14  29.673.11 

Conducting  Transportation 30. 120  85  34.755.80 

General  Expense 12,189.84  9,392.00 

Permanent  Improvement  and  Equip- 
ment    38,431.94 

S  105.125.67  $  152,869  13 

105.125.67 

$    47,743.46 
Respectfully  Submitted, 

S.  L.  DILL, 

Genl.  Book  Keeper. 


GENERAL  REMARKS. 


When  I  first  came  upon  this  Road  in  July,  1881,  as 
Superintendent.  I  found  the  rolling  stock,  road-bed  and 
structures  in  such  a  worn  out  and  broken  down  condition 
that  without  the  extensive  repairs  which  were  immediate- 
ly made  by  the  Midland  N.  C.  Railway  Company,  it  would 
long  ago  have  been  impossible  to  run  a  train  of  cars  over 
the  road  from  Goldsboro  to  Morehead  City. 

Immediately  on  taking  charge  of  the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R. 
property.  Gen.  Manager  Yates,  added  one  man  each  to 
the  laboring  force  of  every  Section,  and  an  additional 
Section  was  put  in,  with  a  thoroughly  equipped  construc- 
tion train  on  the  line  ;  and  for  the  six  summer  months  of 
our  occupancy  of  the  road  an  extra  construction  train 
was  employed.  On  taking  charge  as  Chief  Engineer  and 
Superintendent,  I  added  another  man  to  each  of  the  Sec- 
tion forces. 

General  Book-Keeper  Dill  reports  that  we  have  expend- 
ed for   maintenance  of  road-way  $29,673.11  ;   and  for  per- 


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manent  improvements  and  equipment  f 38,431 .84.  And 
that  the  labor  and  improvement  of  these  Section  forces 
and  expenditures  are  apparent  along  the  line  of  the  road 
is  manifest  in  the  fact  that  during  the  past  summer,  a 
schedule  was  maintained  between  Goldsboro  and  More- 
head  City  one  hour  and  forty  minutes  quicker  than  the 
running  time  when  the  Midland  Company  leased  the 
road. 

The  failure  of  the  Rhode  Island  Locomotive  Works  to 
deliver  our  new  freight  Engines  by  the  loth  October, 
which  they  contracted  to  do  early  last  summer,  threw  the 
weight  of  our  heavy  Fall  business  upon  the  old,  light 
locomotives,  which,  for  the  most  part  have  been  in  use  on. 
this  road  for  the  past  twenty-five  years,  and  this  draft 
upon  our  motive-power  resources  was  such  as  to  embar- 
rass us  in  our  operations,  and  regular  Schedule  time  has 
often  been  lost  and  several  connections  missed  during  the 
past  thirty  days.  Added  to  our  embarrassments  two  of 
our  latest  overhauled  and  best  Engines,  Lewis  Coleman  . 
and  W.  J\  Best  were  thrown  from  the  track  by  broken 
axle  and  truck,  at  Goldsboro,  and  temporarily  crippled, 
the  W.  J.  Best  requiring  to  be  towed  down  and  put  in  the 
Shop  for  repairs. 

But  no  defect  of  roadway  or  structure  has  caused  an 
hour's  delay  to  any  train,  a  dollar  of  damage  to  any  rolling 
stock,  or  for  a  moment  endangered  life,  limb,  or  property; 
and  the  road-bed,  superstructure,  and  bridges  are  in  con- 
dition to  render  safe  any  Schedule  it  has  ever  been  found 
necessary  or  desirable  to  run  over  the  road. 

Under  the  Midland  management  the  details  of  opera- 
tions have  been  left  in  the  hands  of  such  men  as  we  found 
at  the  heads  of  various  departments  and  these  have  had 
command  of  ample  resources. 

The  very  skillful  and  highly  accomplished  Master 
Machinist,  Mr.  Manly,  we  found  in  charge  of  the  Machine 
Shops,  and  Motive  Power  under  the  old  management, 
while  under  this  he  has  governed  with  increased  forces 
and  facilities.  For  Motive  Power -and  maintenance  of 
Cars,  Mr.  Manly  has  expended  $40,616.88;  Permanent 
Improvement  and  Equipment  $25,763.40.  His  department 
he  reports  in   good  order ;  though  Expert  Lewis  says  it 


has  deteriorated  thirty  per  cent,  for  the  past  sixteen 
months  !     Absurd  and  preposterous. 

The  thoroughly  competent  Road  Master,  Mr.  Murdoch 
was  with  the  road  at  its  birth,  and  as  Master  of  Roadway, 
has  performed  his  duties  in  a  thoroughly  satisfactory 
manner.  He  has  expended  on  maintenance  of  way  and 
Permanent  Improvement,  142,341.65.  He  pronounces  the 
road  safe  and  in  good  condition. 

Upon  the  statements  of  these  officers  of  detail,  and 
Dr.  Thos.  D.  Hogg,  the  chosen  Expert  of  the  A.  &  N.  C. 
R.  R.  Co..  all  of  whom  are  accredited  to  us  and  the  public 
as  honorable  and  reliable  men,  I  might  safely  rest  the 
present  condition  of  the  Road  before  the  public  and  your 
Company  ;  and  upon  their  statements  and  my  own  inti- 
mate knowledge  of  the  condition  of  a  property  which  I 
superintend.  I  pronounce  the  report  of  Expert  Genl.  W. 
Gaston  Lewis  untrue  in  statement  and  in  detail. 

He  has  willfully  ignored  and  shut  his  eyes  to  every  im- 
provement this  Company  has  made  along  the  line  of  the 
road.  Into  the  Pier,  approach,  or  "bulk-head"  of  the 
Warehouse  at  Morehead,  where  he  lodges  his  first  com- 
plaint, forty  piles  were  driven  in  June  and  July  last.  Not 
that  they  were  really  needed,  but  in  deference  to  an  ex- 
pressed desire  of  Gov.  Jarvis.  Gen.  Lewis  recommends 
driving  heart  piling  in  salt  water,  whereas,  if  he  knew 
enough  to  write  himself  "Expert"  he  should  know  that 
worms  will  not  attack  timber  with  the  bark  on  ;  that  they 
make  slow  progress  through  sap;  while  they  go  through 
the  heart  in  a  single  season.  This  worm  is  called  Toredo, 
and  it  is  not  practicable  to  construct  anything  of  wood  in 
these  salt  waters  to  resist  his  ravages  in  the  absence  of 
artificial  protection. 

The  embankment  at  Morehead  and  along  the  entire  line 
of  road  is  quite  as  high  and  wide  as  we  found  it,  and  his 
recommendations  regarding  raising,  widening  and  weed- 
ing out  the  roadway,  ditching,  &c. ,  as  a  reflection  or 
criticism  on  this  management  come  with  bad  grace  at  the 
dictation  of  a  management  which  for  years  had  neglected 
them  all  and  suffered  them  to  go  down  under  its  perishing 
policy. 

There  appears  to  have  been  a   conjunction  in   finding  a 


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dangerous  cattle  guard  near  the  residence  of  Appleton 
Oaksmith.  New  stringers  were  put  in  here  within  the 
past  six  months,  and  some  neighbor  having  nailed  rough 
timbers  on  the  stringers  to  prevent  hogs  walking  over 
led  this  Expert  into  the  idea  that  the  cattle  guard  was 
unsafe.  The  culverts  he  pronounces  dangerous  on  this 
Section,  have,  according  to  report  of  Road  Master,  had 
attention  within  the  past  few  months,  and  are  all  absolute- 
ly safe. 

Respecting  the  cross  ties  in  the  road  from  one  end  to  the 
other,  their  condition  and  distance  from  centre  to  centre  ; 
those  which  are  three  feet  were  laid  so  by  preceding 
managements,  not  ours.  In  his  last  report,  before  the 
lease,  President  Whitforcl  said  he  had  distributed  fifteen 
(15.000)  thousand  cross  ties  during  the  year.  Dr.  Hogg, 
the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R.  Co.'s  Expert  estimates  that  we  took 
up  and  replaced  with  new  ones,  28,400  rotten  cross  ties.  \ 
Mr.  Dill  our  Gen.  Book-Keeper  reports  that  we  have  paid 
for  and  put  down  during  the  past  sixteen  months  27,922* 
cross  ties,  costing  $5,584.54. 

Great  stress  is  laid  by  Expert  Lewis  on  sap  ties.  Dr. 
Hogg  says  they  are  new,  consequently  safe  and  sound  at 
the  present  time.  Their  life  time  may  be  short  (not  a-s 
short  as  two  years,)  but  as  an  indictment  of  the  unsafe 
condition  of  the  road  the  sap  tie  count  of  Expert  Lewis 
fails.  Expert  Hogg  says  to  his  President,  Col.  Whitford 
in  special  report,  Nov.  9  :  "I  conclude  that  the  cross  ties 
are  in  better  condition  than  when  the  road  was  leased." 

There  are  no  bridges  on  the  road  in  bad  order.  On  the 
contrary  they  are  all  in  good  order.  See  report  of  Road 
Master.  Trent  bridge  I  have  personally  tested  with  axe 
and  auger,  as  well  as  Neuse  bridge.  I  find  the  stringers 
to  be  of  heart  cypress,  with  an  occasional  sap  edge  show- 
ing slight  signs  of  decay  in  the  sap.  I  find  all  the  timbers 
in  these  structures  sound,  and  the  bridges  have  a  factor 
of  safety  of  six,  all  that  is  required  of  a  new  structure  of 
this  kind.  Some  lateral  braces  are  out  of  Trent  bridge, 
many  of  them  originally  left  out  for  the  accommodation 
of  small  boatmen,  but  none  in  a  dangerously  decayed  con- 
dition, and  their  absence  is  not  an  important  considera- 
tion.    This  bridge  and  all  bridges  have,  by  my  orders,  the 


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constant  attention  of  the  Road  Master,  and  are  kept  ab- 
solutely safe. 

Reaching  New-Berne,  this  Expert  finds  parapet  walls 
on  the  General  Warehouse  which  he  recommends  should 
come  down,  and  the  eaves  made  to  project  over  the 
platforms.  What  platforms  ?  There  are  no  platforms  to 
the  warehouse,  the  tracks  running  the  cars  close  along- 
side the  building.  Parapet  walls  did  once  run  up  on  the 
warehouse,  but  these  were  long  since  removed,  taken 
down  I  am  informed  under  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dent Humphrey  in  1875.  What  sort  of  Expert  is  this  that 
don't  know  the  difference  between  a  warehouse  platform 
and  a  railroad  track,  and  can't  tell  a  flush  roof  from  par- 
apet walls  ! 

His  statement  as  to  the  leaky  condition  of  the  Shop  roof, 
&c,  is  absolutely  and  unqualifiedly  untrue.  See  report 
of  Master  Machinist  Manly.  The  repairs  he  recommends 
to  shop  roof.  &c,  were  made  by  us  a  year  ago.  These  did 
leak  under  our  predecessor's  management,  the  shops  tum- 
bling down  and  dangerous.  See  Manly's  report,  and  also 
files  of  a  paper  published  in  New-Berne  in  the  interest  of 
a  lease  to  Wilmington  &  Weldon  Railroad,  I880-'81,  from 
which  the  report  of  Expert  Lewis  appears  to  have  been 
compiled. 

This  Expert  values  our  new  passenger  station  and  Pre- 
sident and  Superintendent's  offices  at  $1,250  ;  they  cost 
$3,500.  He  says  the  Pier  at  the  River  Warehouse  is  built 
on  inferior  piles.  This  is  not  true.  They  were  ordered 
cut  of  long  leaf  pine,  and  were  the  best  to  be  had  up  Neuse 
River. 

This  report  is  an  exaggeration  and  misrepresentation 
from  beginning  to  end,  grossly  and  wilfully  so,  and.  it  was 
procured  for  a  purpose.  Instead  of  applying  to  this  Com- 
pany for  a  hand  car  to  go  over  the  road  and  examine  it 
as  often  as  the}r  see  fit,  which  is  the  right  and  the  privil- 
ege of  the  A.  &  N.  C.  R.  R.  Co.,  the}'  hire  a  man.  disguise 
him,  and  send  him  over  the  road  on  foot,  in  secret,  who, 
when  he  becomes  tired  and  foot-sore  above  New-Berne, 
annoys  and  quarrels  with  our  Section  men  for  refusing 
his  persistent  demands  to  be  taken  on.  A  report  thus  pro- 
cured was  not  intended  to  be  truthful,  honest,  manly,  fair 

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